Ginna nuclear power plant
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Ginna nuclear power plant
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 Location of R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Ontario, New York |
| Coordinates | 43°16′40″N 77°18′36″W / 43.27778°N 77.31000°WCoordinates: 43°16′40″N 77°18′36″W / 43.27778°N 77.31000°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | April 25, 1966 |
| Commission date | June 1, 1970 |
| Construction cost | $346.15 million (2007 USD) |
| Owner(s) | Exelon |
| Operator(s) | Exelon |
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| Reactor type | PWR |
| Reactor supplier | Westinghouse |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 1 × 580 MW |
| Nameplate capacity | 580 MW |
| Annual net output | 4930 GW·h |
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The Robert Emmett Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, commonly known as Ginna (pron. gin-NAY), is a nuclear power plant located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, in the town of Ontario, Wayne County, New York, approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Rochester, New York. It is a single unit Westinghouse 2-Loop pressurized water reactor, similar to those at Point Beach, Kewaunee, and Prairie Island. Ginna is one of the oldest nuclear power reactors still in operation in the United States, having gone into commercial operation in 1970.
The plant was named after Robert Emmett Ginna, a former chief executive of Rochester Gas & Electric, who was one of the nation’s earliest advocates of using nuclear energy to generate electricity.
Ginna is owned and operated by Exelon after the merger with CENG, who purchased it from Rochester Gas and Electric in 2004.
The Ginna plant was the site of a nuclear accident when, on January 25, 1982, a small amount of radioactive steam leaked into the air after a steam-generator tube ruptured. The leak which lasted 93 minutes led to the declaration of a site emergency. The rupture was caused by a small pie-pan-shaped object left in the steam generator during an outage. This was not the first time a tube rupture had occurred at an American reactor but following on so closely behind the Three Mile Island accident caused considerable attention to be focused on the incident at the Ginna plant. In total, 485.3 curies of noble gas and 1.15 millicuries of iodine-131 were released to the environment [1] and 1,690 gallons of contaminated water was lost from the reactor.
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